Underwater remote surface inspection method and apparatus for reactor constituting member

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PATENT NO 8638897
APP PUB NO 20100089164A1
SERIAL NO

12579238

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In an underwater remote surface inspection method for a reactor constituting member, in order to improve the precision of an operation of inspecting a surface shape of the reactor constituting member, an underwater remote surface inspection apparatus includes a replica picking head, an ultrasonic vibrator, and a replica agent cartridge. The replica picking head is pressed against a surface of core internal structure as an inspection target. A replica agent is supplied from the replica agent cartridge into the replica agent supply region formed inside the replica picking head and contacting with the surface of the core internal structure. After the operation of supplying the replica agent ends, an ultrasonic wave is transmitted from an ultrasonic vibrator to the replica agent inside the replica agent supply region. Accordingly, gas bubbles or liquid bubbles existing inside the replica agent supply region rise up so as to be discharged to the outside of the replica picking head through an air extracting hole. As a result, the gas bubbles or the liquid bubbles do not remain in the surface of the replica agent contacting with the surface of the core internal structure.

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HITACHI-GE NUCLEAR ENERGY LTD1-1 SAIWAI-CHO 3-CHOME HITACHI-SHI IBARAKI 317-0073

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Aoike, Satoru Tokai, JP 14 69
Kurosawa, Koichi Hitachi, JP 17 132
Tanaka, Masaaki Hitachi, JP 165 2667

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